My baby lights up like a glow worm :(
So it turns out she is not the best sleeper. I created the last post in the hospital but was not able to put it up until just earlier as the wi-fi was not fast enough to upload pictures. So here is an “after 24 hours” update.
Addie is now, 3 days old. Since Friday when we left the hospital, we found out she has jaundice and Colic. Her jaundice registers at a 14.5 on the “Bili” scale. This was a high enough score to send her home with a “Bilibed“. This has been a difficult transition from hospital to home. The Colic makes her fussy and uncomfortable, but she is supposed to spend all her time on the bilibed (unswaddled), 20-22 hours each day is prefered. Which means unless we are feeding or changing… she is just laying there. It is almost as if we are “not allowed” to comfort her. So she cries, and we rub her tummy or hold her hands, or touch her cheek, but cant pick her up to try and make her (or us) feel better. We are alos lucky if we can get in 20-24 hours on the bed each day. Once we get her off the bed for feeding, she is so “panicky” and uncomfortable, it takes 15 minutes just to calm herdown enough to eat… this also happens for changing, then we have to get her back onto the bed without making her cry again. Since we can’t swaddle her, it seems impossible at times. Poor thing has started to lose her voice from crying so much.
The nurses feel it is probably related to her meconium. So as soon as that passes, it should get better. The thick “tar” is possibly not letting gas get by in her intestines…so it fills her tummy causing her pain. So the end is in sight, as the bilibed helps her liver function a bit better and she eats a bit more, the meconium will pass completely and she should start getting better.
